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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by fabioborellini on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:30AM (#33997959)
With Microsoft's DirectPlay, it was even worse, since only the lobby functioned in a client-server mode. Once the game started, it went full P2P and all players without port forwarding timed out.
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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by treeman79 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:41AM (#33998055)
I recall kali.net worked pretty good with Warcraft 2 way back in the day.
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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by KptMarchewa on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:35AM (#33998537)
That's just taking bad parts of client-server and P2P modes.
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